Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-13
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OENTHE TWO IL NTES TOLD
IN PARAGNAPAE.


The Baldwin County Homicide the Re-
suit of Reqneat for the Rerayment
of Loan - Toom5a Bryant Found
Guilty of Mansi&nehtrr at Athens.
GEORGIA.
Judge r. d. Harvey. OF Rome, has been
ohlIgt d to nave one OF mis- legs amputa;ed.
Al Brunswick l.Ma5ers has sold or
MS ship chandlery business 70 Mason "
Nicholson. Mr.. Meyers viii 40 into the
snip brokerage business.
j. w. Turner, siVing near COVneton,
was probably fatally injured in rum
away accident Friday. He was passing
down a steep hill, when the tongue Of his
wagon broke. whicc frightened the mules
and they Immediately dashed forward al
rapid rate. Mr.. Turner, trying to hold
them, lost his balance and was precipi-
tated forward and the wagon ran over
him. manglIng his body terribly.
Fort Gaines Star: We heard an old
gentleman say the other day that the
river was rapidly playing out, tributary
creeks were being filled up by the wash
ing In of the surrounding soil, toe riv n
bed was rapidly rising from the same
cause. and that in less than fiftv years
more what is now the swift and majestic
ChatJahoocnee will be one vast swamp
or morass, with only a few sluggish
drains and stagnant ponds TO mark the
place where once the stately steamer
glided along in all its glory.
At Hawkinsville citizens meeting
was held Thursday night at the court
house at which Mayor j. J. Joiner pre-
sided, and Editor j. Il. Beverly, of the
News, acted as secretary. A motion was
made by j. T. Brown TO bond the town for
$500 to pay off tue present debt, which
amounts to about $4,000; a so to bore an
other artesian well, and purchase lot Of
land near the town to cultivate park to
be used for social gathering, and, per-
haps, as a fair ground, the above motion
TO be decided by an election TO be beld i'll
thirty days from now. Tue motion was
adopted.
AT Brooks Station Thursday night the
storehouse of Bishop Il Prlchard was
broken into anu sixteen suits of clothing
OF new stock just In and several others
of stock on hand were taken,
together with several pairs OF
shoes, principally gentemen's, and sew
eral vali>es. The sale mad been blown
open and completely rihed Of its contents.
The books were all charred and crisped,
hole had been drilled through the uppe.
part OF the safe and powder inserted. and
1t went oil tearing the bolts and hinges
from their sockets. and laid the contents
about $3.50 or more was stolen.
AT Rome Friday Sheriff Moore was
surprised by being grasped by the hand
by one who seemed to be an entire
stranger to him. "Why, don't you know
me?' inquired the stranger. "My name
Is Ed Morris aud | owe you sum of
money borrowed from you over ten years
ago--in fact, when l married-and here
is the amount" Mr.. Moore had forgotten
the matter and 1t was some time before
he could call it to mind. Mr.. Morris lett
Rome some years ago and settled In Biz
mingham. Recently he sold some prop
erty at a magnificent advance over what
IL cost him. He remem bered many small
debts he owed In Rome and went to pay
them. .
Mrs. o. f. Lagerquist, of Macon. has re-
ceived letter from Key West, Fla, en-
closing clippings from papers there,
regarding fierce feud which has sprung
up between Yellowstone Kit, well
remembered in Southwest Georgia, and
Z. j. Gardiner, a rival medicine man. 1t
appears that Gardiner aud his friends
waylaid Kit at the corner OF DuvaI street,
put out the lamp and assaulted hi m in
the dark, firing at him pistols and telling
him with bricK. Kit tried to shoot back,
but his pistol hung fire, He was land up
several days, but was not SO sick but
what he was able to write half column
letter denouncing Gardiner as a scoun-
dreI, cur and bad citizen generally, which
communication was published.
SDr. N. o. Pratt has been inspecting the
minerals found near Tunnel Hill. He
says that the iron ore will assay At to IS
per cent. metal, and manganese 60 to rs
| per cent. metal. The iron ore, both brown
and red, is particularly free from phos-
phorus, and can be mined at the low rate
OF 20c. TO 20c. per ton. The manganese is
OF very superior quality. and is particu-
larry adapted to making the finest Besse-
mer steel. A subscription is now being
raised TO buy twenty-five acres of suita-
BILE land for furnaces. buildings, ETC..
which the Tunnelites Will donate 70 any
company that will purchase their min
eral deposits and manufacture the same
in their midst. An Atlanta company has
purchased the Samson mineral springs,
near that place, and will spend $4,000
the coming spring in improvements.
A man named J. j. Brown, who lives
In Macon county, near the line Of Schlew
was in Buena Vista Friday with SUD.
scriptlon list to aid him in paying the eX.
hense OF having his arm amputated. He
was in critical condition. At tue battle
of the Wilderness be was wounded in the
right arm, and DIR. PhIlpot, OF Ia bottom,
then a surgeon in the army, took out the
bone between the shoulder and elbow
joints. The wound healed, and Mr..
Brown has been able Opursue his avoca-
ti0n of farming since the war until a sho [
time ago, while splitting rails, he fell n, d
hurt his lame arm and il gradually
dwindled away, the muscles and liga-
ments contracting to such an extent that
bis hand was drawn into knot. He was
in sucn constant and severe pain that The
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like an aspen leaf. He was on his way to
Ialbotton to have his arm amputated by
the same surgeon who attended him
when the wound was first made.
Thursday night, March 3, at about IL
O'Clock. IRE broke out in the clothing
house OF Williamson Il Potts, at Jeifer-
sou, and was not checked until That
building, the McLester dwelling house
and the Warsham House were consumed.
Nothing WIS saved IRON the cIofhMg
house. Only part of the furn ture be-
longing TO j. a. Lyle and j. n. R0 IS, who
occupied the McLester building, was
saved, but nearly all tue furniture was
taken from the Worsham House.
The loss sustained by Williamson
d Potts was near $4,000, without insu-
rance; by j, A. LYLE nearly $500, without
insurance; Mrs. 4, b. WOrsham and A.
j. Gileland about $1,000, without insu-
nSance; byJ. +. Randolph $1,000. with in
Ehrance for 81 200. Hog the fire origi-
Mated is not known, but the prevaIlir q
OpiniOn is that il was causpd IN tho oora